40.7500° N, 111.8833° W
SALT LAKE CITY
Most Famous People Born in Salt Lake City, United States
- Notable people
- 739
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1940
- Most distinctive
- Church 26.0×
Salt Lake City has the most denominationally distinctive profile in the country: a Church count better than twenty-five times the global baseline, a Missionary bench not far behind, and a Religious cluster reinforcing them — essentially the LDS hierarchy and its worldwide mission system rendered as a statistic. Outside the temple, the Skier roster runs through Alta and Deer Valley, and a quieter Novelist vein catches the Mormon-letters generation out of the Utah publishing scene.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Salt Lake City during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Salt Lake City Is Known For
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Actor is Salt Lake City's biggest profession — 11% of all notables (79).
Salt Lake City over-indexes on church — 26.0× the global rate.
Salt Lake City under-produces painter — only 0.7× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Salt Lake City's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1910s Clear ×
Loretta Young
1913 - 2000
Gordon B. Hinckley
1910 - 2008
Robert Walker (actor, born 1918)
1918 - 1951
Simon Ramo
1913 - 2016
Parley Baer
1914 - 2002
Sally Blane
1910 - 1997
Arleen Whelan
1914 - 1993
Frank Moss (politician)
1911 - 2003
Paul Langton
1913 - 1980
Raymond F. Jones
1915 - 1994
Art Lund
1915 - 1990
Dorothy Poynton-Hill
1915 - 1995
Daya Mata
1914 - 2010
David S. King
1917 - 2009
Thomas Savage (novelist)
1915 - 2003
William Mulloy
1917 - 1978
Richard Irvine
1910 - 1976
Hartland Snyder
1913 - 1962
Ernie Nordli
1912 - 1968
Esmond Emerson Snell
1914 - 2003
Frederick Hammersley
1919 - 2009
Dale Morgan
1914 - 1971
Fred Gehrke
1918 - 2002
Shep Houghton
1914 - 2016
Homer R. Warner
1911 - 2012
Frank Christensen
1910 - 2001
Theodore Wassmer
1910 - 2006
Leroy Nash
1915 - 2010
Cliff Nordberg
1917 - 1979
Florence S. Jacobsen
1913 - 2017
Karl A. Fox
1917 - 2008
David Thomas Lewis
1912 - 1983
J. Sterling Livingston
1916 - 2010
Wendell Rollins
1917 - 1990
Edwin Q. Cannon
1918 - 2005
Jack H. Adamson
1918 - 1975
Peter J. Pitchess
1912 - 1999
Joel Dorius
1919 - 2006
Ge Ge Pearson
1917 - 1975
Gerry H. Kisters
1919 - 1986
Herbert Taylor (monteur)
1916 - 1982
Paul McDonough
1916 - 1960
Aldon Junior Anderson
1917 - 1996
Mary Blade
1913 - 1994
John W. Gallivan
1915 - 2012
Pete Harman
1919 - 2014
Leland McPhie
1914 - 2015
Glen L. Rudd
1918 - 1987
Elwood Romney
1911 - 1970
Robert S. Stevens (judge)
1916 - 2000
Frederic Parke
Born 1913
Frank W. Lewis
1912 - 2010
Helen Taylor (Komponistin)
1915 - 1950
Walter E. Cosgriff
1914 - 1961
Charles R. Stimpson
1919 - 1983
Montyne
1916 - 1989
Roald A. Hogenson
1913 - 1987
E. R. Callister Jr.
1916 - 1980